V Puthur IPL 2025: Mumbai Indians’ New-Gen Pace Sensation Fast-rising seamer V Puthur made an instant splash in his debut IPL season with Mumbai Indians, turning heads with a burst of six wickets in just five outings. The 2025 campaign saw the left-armer rip through top orders at a strike-rate of 12—one wicket every two overs—while keeping batters guessing at an economy of 9.08 on some of the flattest tracks in the league. His standout spell came against Sunrisers Hyderabad, where he rattled the stumps three times in a single over to register his maiden three-wicket haul and tilt the match MI’s way. Across 72 balls of high-pressure bowling, Puthur conceded only 109 runs—proof of his nerve under the death-overs spotlight. With no five-fers yet but a growing reputation for late-inning heroics, the 21-year-old has already stamped himself as MI’s go-to impact bowler for the seasons ahead.

Chris Gayle IPL story: 13 seasons, 4 965 runs, 357 sixes and one unforgettable 175. The self-styled “Universe Boss” walked into IPL 2009 with Kolkata Knight Riders, but it was at Royal Challengers Bengaluru from 2011-2017 that he became a global T20 icon—belting 404 fours and 357 sixes overall at a jaw-dropping strike rate of 148. In 141 innings he cleared the rope once every 9.3 balls and produced 31 half-centuries plus six blistering hundreds, the most famous being his record 175* off 66 balls at the Chinnaswamy in 2013. After his Bengaluru fireworks, Gayle took his power game to Punjab Kings, turning up in orange from 2018 to 2021 and continuing to pepper boundaries with the same ruthless ease. While he rolled his arm over occasionally—18 wickets in 38 bowling innings—his narrative is written in soaring sixes and match-winning hundreds that re-defined T20 batting forever.

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